Android connecting to local java ServerSocket?

I have written a basic java http server using sockets. It has simple REST interface and responds to GET/POST requests. I set out to do a small android app connecting to this interface. I can connect to my servers using browsers from my pc and also I tried out from vmware player virtual machines ubuntu and xp. All work well. I was afraid of testing on emulator so deployed the app on android phone. It cann开发者_运维知识库ot connect to the java servers. Both device and PC is connected to same network. Am I missing something here like port forwarding etc ? If that's the problem how come I was able to connect from my virtual machines?

Any help/suggestions are appreciated.

Regards, Lalith

Can you have forgotten to set the internet permission perhaps? You need this in your android manifest.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

/Stefan

Can you connect to this server from another PC running on the same network? (This is not the same as connecting from a virtual machine running on the same box as the server)

If not, you may have a firewall issue on the PC.

You should test on the android emulator too, use the alias for the host loopback interface address that you can find in the emulator docs.